Heather Froehlich

ok this was fascinating, I had been wondering idly how llms would perform at this

i have such limited patience for the authorship debates, so this post may have been a cry for help 😂 will def look into this as something different!

and I know the debate! But it was sort of relaxing for a while.

at least authorship debates are grounded in some kind of textual reality, however tenuous some of them may be

things are bad when the thought "maybe reading about Sir Thomas More's contested authorship will be more enjoyable than having to read more about generative AI" crosses your mind

terrible awful news. Rest in power Fobazi

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Agree!

I’m sure someone has decided the shorthand is easiest; I had the same thought this am. A great play, woefully underrated in my book.

This whole week I keep thinking about David Golumbia, how right he was, and how *incredibly* mad he would have been to have been proven right

The next session in our seminar series, ‘The Fragile Record’, explores gaps and silences in cultural heritage collections.

Join us online at 4pm on 17 February as we examine uncertainty, privilege and power in digital archives.

www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

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Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc

amazing to see three bands i think of being a peak kind of canadian early aughts deal tour primarily in the US!?

Lessons Learned from Machine Learning
Researchers about the Terms “Artificial Intelligence”
and “Machine Learning” @johnrgallagher.bsky.social compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...

Google Disables Search for Book Previews Google has disabled search functionality for preview books on Google Books, leaving users unable to search through pages that remain visible on the platform.

winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...

Newberry Library Receives $4 Million Grant Funding will expand access to Indigenous collections, enable community-led research, and strengthen tribal partnerships.

We’re excited to share today that the Newberry has received a $4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand access to our Indigenous Studies collections and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. www.newberry.org/news/newberr...

We are pleased to announce the Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials workshop, which will be held 3/13 during #AAS2026! Learn about text encoding, codicology, & more from field experts. 💻 The workshop is free, but please register by 2/15! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Logic appears to be: We already cover information literacy, surely AI literacy is part of the information literacy now? We get so many requests to teach/support this *even if we don't want to*. And more genAI keeps creeping in.

it's all that, PLUS these companies keep adding AI features on us. We are trapped in a rock/hard place situation -- according to the faculty, someone has to be responsible for literacy here, why not the libraries?

I have gone to SO MANY vendor meetings lately to assess what's going on in AI land. They are all fascinating. I haven't seen this level of excitement from all these companies since Digital Humanities hit the scene

I can't tell you how many of the databases and vendors we work with are just adding AI stuff to their platforms. We are drowning trying to keep track and manage all of them!

New blog post! This one describes the *my place* app which brings the place-based collections I worked on during my SLV residency together in a single interface – just try searching for an address! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/02/my-place-exploring-slv-collections.html #GLAM […]

Girlfriend loves to bake and I sometimes get sent to work with cake, cookies, etc. everyone’s delighted when it happens! We also have a candy jar in our space, does so much for morale & well being. Snacks are the way!!

Hey sociologists, I'm organizing an ASA Methodology session on AI! Submissions are due by 2/25. Looking forward to a timely cross-method convo on emerging research best practices and disciplinary norms and ethics in August.

Applications for our rare books librarian position at the University of Arizona are open until Feb 9 (next week)
We have a fab diverse collection, great people to work with, and amazing Mexican food.
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I'm not on the search, please feel free to reach out w qs!

What’s the Matter With Texas A&M? Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university.

"Land grant universities would, in effect, offer instruction and research in scientific, labor-saving agriculture so as to point away from labor-intensive slave agriculture [...] And while a liberal arts education was not mandated, it was permitted." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Why did they pull the "qualifications" section from every academic job ad for this

I love this piece. It's a nice companion to @aresluna.org's analysis and celebration of Gorton, "the hardest working font in Manhattan" :)

Don't die lil thing A note: I am quite urgently looking for paid work right now. I've been unemployed since July, which means the unemployment checks are dried up. And here I sit on the verge of nearly complete state fa...

My brilliant friend Ån wrote a searing-yet-hopeful newsletter about the promises of computers, creativity, and connection in the current moment, where it all seems like a blasted landscape of ashes.

[Also there is a mixtape for you to listen to.]

feralresearch.org/newsletter/d...

A quick plug for our @rsaorg.bsky.social San Francisco '26 session on building and using early modern libraries

rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...

Saturday, 21 Feb, 2.30pm–4pm.